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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Forwarding Email In a Correct and Appropriate Way

HOW TO FORWARD E-MAIL APPROPRIATELY

A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures..

Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it?

Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel!

How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps:

(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top ). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them,wwhatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on "Forward" first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your mess! Age will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field of the people who receive it.

(3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to View, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.

(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don 't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!)

(7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward d them.

Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on.

So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.

Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but strip my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

Sony Ericsson MBW-200 Evening Classic watch

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Sony Ericsson MBW-200 Evening Classic watch
Sin$498 (black leather or brushed metal strap) and $588 (crystal-studded face with white leather strap), from all Sony Ericsson and SonyStyle stores and authorised resellers

IF THE Bluetooth earpiece is the king of driver aids, Sony Ericsson's Bluetooth watch must be the queen.
The elegant timepiece displays a caller ID and rumbles on your wrist when a call comes to your Sony Ericsson cellphone.
The caller's contact saved in your phone shows up on the watch's light-emitting diode (LED) display.
Press the top right button on its side - once to mute and twice to reject the call.
It is a nifty gadget for geek gals. No more rummaging through the contents of your handbag to mute a ringing cellphone or wondering who is calling when you are driving.
If you want to answer the call, simply use your Bluetooth earpiece.
You will not miss an SMS alert either. The watch vibrates to alert you and the SMS envelope icon appears on its LED display.
The watch functions as a music controller too, so you no longer have to keep referring to your phone when you want to listen to your music.
To display a track's title, all you need to do is press the top right button three times.
Press the left middle button to play or stop a music track. Press and hold the top left button to forward a track. Press and hold the bottom left key to go back to the previous track.
Unfortunately, you cannot control the volume of the music with the watch - a handy feature which Sony Ericsson might want to consider for future models.
Also, I find the LED screen a tad too small for comfortable viewing.
The watch itself, however, should not be made any bigger. Already, it is a little too big for my narrow wrist.
By Irene Tham
Final say
The gadget's price can buy you two sports watches. So it may not be worth it if you are not tech savvy to begin with. For geek gals, though, it is a perfect fit.

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